Need to Know: Organizing Sources

For term papers or extended projects, you may want to make use of bibliographic application that will help organize your research and citations, make them accessible via the web, share with teammates and generate bibliographies easily in established formats, integrating with MS Word.

This web-based tool is available at no charge to TAMU students and accessible even after graduating. It is ideal for collecting, accessing, organizing, citing, and sharing citations including articles, books, websites, and more.

The application is free to TAMU students. Stores references to articles and books, allowing you to cite them in one of over 5,000 citation styles. The majority of library databases allow you to export references to your EndNote library.

Need to Know: Citing Sources in APSA

In many cases, the American Political Science Association (APSA) citation style is prescribed in this subject area. Check your syllabus and/or with your instructor to confirm their preference.

Scholarly Sources in Political Science

The databases below provide extensive coverage of political topics, including international relations, law, public administration and policy, international relations or trade, comparative politics, developing nations, etc. published in journals, books, public documents, web sites, and policy reports.

Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

NEW!Loeb Classical Library, a digital version of the Loeb Classical Library which features prominent Greek and Latin texts in philosophy and politics, alongside English translations. It is searchable and browsable.

Sources in the Historical Literature

The History databases are quite useful for looking at past events in International Affairs, Political Sciences and Economics.

These history databases can limit to articles ABOUT a specific period of time (usually databases limit by publication date). Just put the dates of the time period in which you are interested in the ERA field.

Provides concrete literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Contains full-text coverage of hundreds of journals and books, and selective indexing for journals dating back nearly 60 years.